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How sad to see this piece of culture fading (or maybe it's not?). Luckily the Mastodon code base is merely a recommendation and lots of instances use custom names. I can see many sticking with toots.
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As a very young child & native American English speaker, I was told the rhyme, Beans, beans, the magical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. That cemented the association with farts, but 'toot' as in 'toot your own horn' (idiom for self-promotion), or even just literally tooting a horn, are also strong associations. So it's not exclusively, or primarily, a word for farts to my ears – but that's one of the top…
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be musical fruit . That's why they make you toot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazevw-uIDA
I also cannot get around the fart connotation.
I approve. No one asked me, but if they had, I'd have opined that the pre-cuting of your nomenclature is usually the result of too much time spent thinking about branding and not enough time building features. Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community, and Twitter did not adopt the word formally for a couple years after it was in popular use.
> Note that "tweet" was spawned organically by the community It took the community to tell Twitter the obvious: > twitter v. (of a bird) give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds. > tweet n. a chirping note. Seems that a 3rd party application popularised the term, avoiding yet another faux-pas: > One Twitter developer, Blaine Cook, had been testing the beta releases of Twitterrific. Early that month,…
This made me laugh, because it's basically the Twitter Story.
In fairness, with such an enormous community and such a tiny (exposed) application surface, this is probably a natural law -- akin to the creative games kids will invent with rocks and sticks. :)
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I actually just finished twatting about it. Talk about naming things in a cringey - these folks should think through all the verb tenses first.
The past form would be tweeted, no?
When you're naming a thing you should be careful and deliberate in your process - generally coincidences will work against you, though you might get lucky and pull a Kit-Kat[1].
1. https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/the-kit-kat-in-japan-a-trans...
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I'm having trouble deciding if you are tugging everyone's leg or being straight up serious or tugging everyone's leg by being straight up serious. Sometimes that last is funnier, though usually only to the person doing it.
Well, the entire discussion deriving from the proposed code change is ultimately debating the relative merits of a fart joke, so any contribution is bound to be a gas.
That makes total sense.
I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
DuckDuckGo is a big one in the stupid naming area. They own duck.com, they suggest using "Duck It" (which kinda works IMO) and they still choose to use the ridiculous "duckduckgo" branding. It's stupid but it's honestly the main reason I'm not using it. That and their crappy duck logo. I wish they would be wise and rebrand too.
However, Duck is rather generic-sounding and will require $$$ in ad-spend to get name recall. Even though it's awkward, DuckDuckGo is certainly memorable, sometimes that works in a product's favour.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
Homebrew is awesome and I love beer but the names and metaphors really do not deliver value. I much prefer descriptive names to cute ones.
I know little about Mastodon, but it seems like somebody went out of their way to make the cringiest sounding product possible. “Hey man, I just tooted on mastodon!” It really sounds like parody. I hope I am just missing the point. You might say this is a superficial criticism, but I think naming is important when it comes to social appeal. At least, it becomes important when the naming has gone so horribly wrong. If…
Homebrew is awesome and I love beer but the names and metaphors really do not deliver value. I much prefer descriptive names to cute ones.
Looking at you, Go...